Ironically, Charles and Robin Paul were in Orlando when stories started swirling about their son Chris Paul wanting out of the New Orleans Hornets. The two have been at Disney with their AAU basketball team, CP3 All-Stars, competing in the AAU Nationals.

Senior sports writer Ken Berger of CBSsports.com broke a story Wednesday that an anonymous source familiar with Chris Paul’s exit strategy was looking for a trade to the New York Knicks, Los Angeles Lakers or Orlando Magic.

I caught up with Robin Friday afternoon at the Universal Boys and Girls Club in Orlando, where she was training for an upcoming charity basketball game with the Mothers of Professional Basketball Players Association.

Q: Obviously I’m sure you know about all the talk about your son wanting to leave and maybe Orlando being one of the destination spots. How do you like the city of Orlando?

A: “I mean I like the city of Orlando and I’ve heard all the rumors and such. And he has not stated that he wanted to leave. He said that he wanted to be apart of a winning program.”

So is it possible he could end up here?

A: “Who knows?”

Robin Paul was mum on her son’s future plans, but certain about one thing; she and her fellow NBA moms plan to waxing the NFL moms in their charity basketball game Aug. 7 at Olympia High School. Tickets can be purchased at the door or are being pre-sold at the Universal Boys and Girls Club for $10.

These moms are really serious about the competition, considering the NBA moms have been holding multiple practices.

But one bold NFL mom, Deanna Moore, mother of Tampa Bay Buccaneers DE Kyle Moore, came to the NBA moms practice and talked a little trash with Flo Allen, mother of Ray Allen, and Juanita Brown, mother of Rashard Lewis.

“We’re really excited about coming out and supporting the charity event,” Moore said. “We’re even more excited about putting a whooping on the NBA moms.”

Wow, did I just waste my time reading an article that said absolutely nothing at all? Am I more informed? NO! Thanks for letting me know that CP3’s mom had nothing relevant to say about her son. LOL………geez.

Ha! Shannon, that reaction is great. You shouldn’t even look at the comments on these things. Most of the people who post are probably just having a bad day at work and need to get away for a minute.

In any event, this is the first and only exciting Magic event this offseason, so, really, I think any and all blog entries are more than welcome. Plus, you talked to the man’s mother. That’s going above and beyond, really, even if she didn’t want to divulge plans.

But, sounds to me like she’s trying to talk herself into getting used to visiting her son in Orlando…assuming the Hornets see a contract or two they like…

So apparently because it’s “just a blog” that means it can be completely pointless, even tho the title chosen for the “blog” is “Chris Paul’s Mom Addresses Trade Rumor about her son” and the Sentinel pulls the titles from “just the blogs” and puts it on the front page.

“Calm down people, it’s a blog.” –Shannon Owens
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But you’re getting paid for it (although probably not that much because the Tribune Company is bankrupt–financially and morally). True grassroots bloggers do their blogging for free, so we expect more from the *supposed* non-Amateurs.

I read this and thought to myself, wtf is going on today, the Sentinel is even worse than usual. First I read a stupid article about how Shaq and Penny’s numbers should be retired, and then I come across this piece of trash. I didn’t find it surprising at all when I went back to look at who wrote the Shaq/Penny article and found it was written by the same person as this.